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Chris didn't know whether to laugh or...cringe, honestly. He didn't know what this dude was talking about, and he seemed odd. Might be a savant of some sort, or could be certafiably bat s**t insane. Could also be telling the truth.

"You sound like you have a lot to say about yourself. And i'd love to hear it after I am introduced to Ms..." he offered a hand to the unnamed girl, wearing a small piece of cloth over her mouth and nose. Was she sick? He hoped not, but her eyes were striking and her skin quite pale.

She smelled nice, even from where he was sitting. Smelled like intensity.

He sensed that she was a bit confused at why he would ask her name...

"I know that your name is Vivian, Erika mentioned it. Introductions can be more than just a name, though I dont' want to pry."

He tried to change the subject. It didn't take a rocket scientist to tell the girl probably didn't love talking about herself or her past. Still, the invitation was open.

"I am Chris, recently moved here. To the best of my knowledge i'm here for Sword and Gunplay. I'm eighteen and my Principal sent me here to...learn, I assume. I've only recently gotten here and what-not, and already i'm meeting..." he paused, unsure how to catagorize the three of them, "people."

The Doctor watched this small exchange between the three students quietly, taking in the information they divulged. Like Chris - guns? He frowned a bit, furrowing his brow ever so slightly. Guns? Useless killing machines, nothing more, and he generally disliked anyone he met that partook in such devices. 'Everyone has their reasons, I suppose.' The alien thought to himself. 'Of course, "accidentally" blowing up the weapons storehouse on campus certainly wouldn't be too bad a thing. We could grow a banana orchard there instead. Everyone likes bananas...' Wrapped up in the ways he could cleverly reduce access to the weapons storehouse and potential escape routes when the headmistress invariably came to kill him for it, he nearly didn't catch Erika's question.

A sleeved hand shot in the air - just like one of those brainy kids in school who really knows the answer and really wants to be heard - raising the ends of his light brown trench coat off the linoleum floor. "I know my way around! Been stuck here for nearly two years now, myself, so I've had ample time to explore the area. Lots of things to do around here, lots of places...and off-campus too! There's even a beach here that has several types of herbs and stones used in - I dread to say it," He scrunched his nose in distaste, "but I suppose alchemy and "magic" are about as scientific as things get here, I much prefer physics myself, much more feasible than doing a doodle on the ground and having it do random things by clapping your hands together! Mind, that show that did it was quite good..." He grinned cheekily at the students. The Doctor really didn't want to part ways with the first people he'd seen in ages, not when he could definitely be of some use to them as well - sociable creature, him, and he'd been alone for several months now. He didn't mind, no, not him, traveled alone all the time! ...but...he wasn't used to being stuck in one place and being alone, the silence had been far too unforgiving.

Erikas eyes darted to Doctor as he spoke. She seemed to have a bit of intrest in the magic deparment when he spoke as well as other things he said. Erika let it process her thoughts and then she looked at Vivan when she spoke as well. Erika looked at her and tryed to see what information she could pick of her. She wore a mask had ruby eyes and something more to her but hard to pick. She seemed to share a bit of intrest in magic or alchemy. Erika then grabbed her tray of food and placed her trash together, "Well..Im full and well done eating. I think we should head on..Maybe I can place my things in a more sensible place." Erika then looked over at Chris wondering if he himself was done eating. Erika then felt a different hunger rise, she then closed her eyes and open them suppressing it. She remembered this feeling all to well and knew she is changing and had to start over and knew.

Chris was holding back laughter. Adoring laughter, not judgemental laughter. He figured everyone was a person and intitled to their own...perks.

"Oh," he was reminded, "do you mind if I have that pear? I love pears...and I could eat it while we walk, assuming it's...edible." If it'd been in someone as eccentric as Docter's pocket for this long, god only knew.

Still, he got up as he talked, tossed everything on his tray and buried his hands in his pockets as Docter gorged himself.

He chose not to sit again, as that would require sliding past the hungry one and he didn't want to interrupt. Rather, he leaned on the table, his back just a bit in front of Viv, who was on the seat closest to the room at large. Erika had the window seat. He cocked one of his feet, resting completly on one of them, waiting patiently for the Docter to finish.

"Hrm...Beach," he whispered to himself.

The Doctor nodded, swallowing his mouthful of greasy potatoes. "I'm game for a wander! Question is, what next? The beach?" He wrapped up the leftover fries and shoved them in his pocket without a second thought and began to amble backwards towards the door, facing the trio as he went. "The church? The dorms? There's a lovely rec-room - mind, it's a bit misleading, rec-room. Sounds like it's a wrecked-room, but it isn't. Well, I say it isn't, but this is a school, and with schools comes mayhem and destruction. You students! It's all pot noodles and, "Hey, let's play with paintball guns indoors" Mind, since studying is out of the question, you have to fill the time up somehow..." The alien grinned, shoving his hands in his pockets. "Oh, and Chris! You can have that pear. Might taste a bit different than what you're used to, it's from..." He frowned, thinking for a minute. "...about two thousand years from now, relatively speaking." He stopped short of the door, and waited for the group, wondering if Vivian would want to drop of her bag, or if the general desire to see this supposed beach would win out. He wouldn't mind going to the beach, he hadn't been in a while, and it was one of the few seasides he'd seen as of late that weren't menacing or completely frozen over. Not that he minded frozen seas, it reminded him of his time with Rose, back when it was all big ears, leather, and always running... But this was neither the time nor place to have a reminisce.

The Doctor nodded at Vivian, glad the cafeteria was quiet enough that he could pick up on her hushed tones. "Ah, of course - completely forgot about that bag of yours! Can't lug a thing like that to the seaside, you'd get sand in all of your things, and that'd just be a laundromat nightmare" He wasn't sure if he liked the idea of his ship turning into some sort of field trip, now that he stopped to think about it - it'd just been Vivian back when he made the offer, after all - but it couldn't be helped...and the dorms were on the way to the beach. He supposed it was the price one paid for wanting (he refused to say 'needing') to be cordial and people-friendly, after months of seclusion. And, besides, just because they were swinging by didn't mean they could do anything, like wander off and get terribly, irrevocably lost in the bowels of his multi-dimensional ship. Strictly console-room only, one stop, drop, zip bang boom!

Hopefully.

"Right then!" The Doctor, a cheery smile on his face, turned on his heel and flung the doors open. "And off we go!"



((Can finish up anything you need to do here, but I'll go do the Doctor outside his ship post - It'll be Dorms, "The Roof" thread! Be sure to read the first post on that thread, as I'm not going to properly rehash the information! See you guys there!)